Sponsor a Childs Lunch its only $1

Yes that's right!

This made possible in conjunction with dedicated volunteers & Food Rescue

Xavier our Ambassador for Lunches in Schools program working alongside students participating in their Duke of Edinburgh's Award and our Mum Volunteers we have made it through 3 months of going from 60 a day to 120. meetings to expand our program to other schools in collaboration with other organisations are underway …..

We are grateful to have 3 sponsors on board so far, It all helps THANK YOU!!!

please consider joining our program just $5 a week or $10 a month every $ you donate will help provide a nutritious lunch.

Love Soup Charitable Trust -  BNZ  02-0464-0039958-00 Ref: KidsKai

Yarnteeze have Blessed us with 3 years of devoted Knitting Warm gear for our care packages, Gifted out to the homeless ,28 beanies and 17 pairs of fingerless mittens in this lot. Made with Love!! some we shared with a couple we support in Rotorua Percy and Louise that feed the Homeless there 6 days a week. It is estimated there are currently up to 2000 Homeless people in Rotorua. Yarnteeze meet weekly Tuesdays at the Coffee Club in Orewa with Founder / Organizer Trish Stewart

Last week a ton of Peaches and Avocados where kindly donated to us from Countdown, Fruit we have been so desperate to get a hold of and with the abundance we were able to share with Several Schools, an early 4am start for Tokowha and Andrew last weeks journey to Waikato to share the fruit around with much appreciation from the schools.

Over 200 hearty lunches given out April 11th #forthekids #officials, #volunteers, in collaboration with Ngāti Pikiao sports team that provided the yummy #hangi and baking at the Rotorua Youth Festival what an awesome day working with like minded friends, it was kinda cool being underneath the McDonald's sign as this is where we began in Rotorua, meetings in their corporate room in 2013 McDonald's Rotorua Fenton st. ended up with more than one charity forming. Which today still serve in the community..same thing happened in West Auckland McDonald's Kelston volunteering with #plantingseeds #peoplehelpingpeople

Thank you Sonia Te Whare Jimmy Boswell Tokowha Tehuia Andrew Smallman Sabrina Dugan thank you Hone Morris & Vee for invite to take part day turned out beautiful weather we enjoyed being involved

Stone soup Thank you the yummy Real fruit Icecream

Thank you Sonia and Tim taking good care us in your home

We attended a Civil Defence Foundation Course in "Coordination Centers CDEM". (Civil Defence Emergency Management)we hope to get involved encouraging our volunteers to train. Being Prepared for emergencies. We also have plans to get as many of our volunteers training in First Aid. Do you know what to do if someone was Choking? education, awareness You could save someone’s life one day.

Tokoroa: New Community Takeaway Dinners Kitchen
We are very happy to announce that Love Soup Waikato & Bay Of Plenty have partnered with Activate Church Tokoroa

and from 1st April the Community Takeaway Dinners will now be produced at the Activate Church Tokoroa.
This allows us to provide a larger number of dinners (as required) and we will now be offering takeaway community dinners every two weeks starting from 14 April.
Please keep an eye on our pages for dinner details next week

Thank you Domino's Pizza Tokoroa for the weekly donation of 25 pizzas. We were able to couple that donation with 6 lovely cakes donated by New World.

Donations were shared with local families by Tokoroa Budget Advisory Service Inc.

We are so pleased to be working closely with TBAS in delivering food support to people and whanau in our community. There are far more families and individuals in our wider community that suffer serious food poverty than ever in the past.

They are also our primary Community Takeaway Dinner partner and this week they shared 128 of the 350 community dinners.

This weeks community takeaway dinner was another overwhelming success thanks to New World for their incredible support, Activate Church Tokoroa, Tokoroa Budget Advisory Service Inc and Four Square Balmoral

Just over 350 dinners were made by the Love Soup Waikato & Bay Of Plenty team with support from Tokoroa Budget Advisory Service Inc and local whanau members.

Details for the next community takeaway dinner will be posted next week.

We are currently preparing care Packages to take out to the Homeless in Auckland

items needed: thermal boot socks, gloves, scarves, and hats Toiletries, Wipes, Tissues, Soaps, Toothpaste, Toothbrush, sanitizer, Lip balm, Mints, Gum, Small gift, deodorant, Comb, Hair Brush, Razor, Woman’s Hygiene products.

These care packages won’t solve homelessness but they will let someone know that they are cared for.